Pa. officer reprimanded for black teacher's arrest

PITTSBURGH (AP) ó A recommendation to reprimand a white Pittsburgh police officer who arrested a black teacher who commented about the officer's driving on a narrow street has been deemed too harsh by the city's police union and not harsh enough by the American Civil Liberties Union, which sued over the incident last week.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (http://bit.ly/1hicYmP ) says union president, Sgt. Michael LaPorte, believes the recommended reprimand is too harsh and should be appealed. LaPorte says Gromek did nothing wrong when he arrested Dennis Henderson as a crowd gathered outside the community meeting June 26. Henderson spent 12 hours in jail on charges that were later dropped.

But Witold Walczak, the ACLU's legal director in Pennsylvania, says "it's hard to imagine ... a stronger case of misconduct."

The city's Office of Municipal Investigations recommended the reprimand.